Eric Henson
Vice President
Eric Henson is a Vice President with Compass Lexecon and is based in Boston, MA and Tucson, AZ. He provides economic and financial analysis in the areas of oil and gas valuation, antitrust claims and market structures. Recent projects have involved calculation of appropriate discount rates and evaluation of gas price forecasts, analysis of the structure of various oil and gas marketplaces, analysis of the factors influencing the value of crude oil and natural gas, and the economic role and the determination of value-added by various market participants operating between the wellhead and points downstream.
Mr. Henson also has an interest in Native American economic development and governmental design. Recent work on behalf of Native Americans has included analysis of tribal taxing authority in the Pacific Northwest and settlement negotiations relating to the value of oil leases in Alaska.
Prior to joining Compass Lexecon, Mr. Henson was an industry analyst at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he assisted in the development of quantitative models to forecast outperformance of S&P 500 industry groups. He also programmed econometric software and macros to process performance reports. From 1995 to 1996, Mr. Henson was the manager of the United States Economic Database at Haver Analytics in New York City.
Mr. Henson has a masters degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an M.A. in Economics from Southern Methodist University and a B.B.A. in business economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio. At Harvard, Mr. Henson focused on the interaction of government and business. His thesis examined the importance of a uniform commercial code for economic development on a Native American Reservation, and he was the Kennedy School’s Christian Johnson Native American Fellow. Mr. Henson currently serves as a research fellow for The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.